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PINNED Configure maintenance flyouts
User interface settings include the option “Show maintenance notes”. How can I as onprem-backend administrator configure and switch on such flyouts to inform my users about upcoming maintenance?

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Custom Dashboards Menu has to provide the link connecting to the specific analyzed page for monitoring in detail

The customer in charge of IBM MQ monitoring requested the feature, which is "Instana Custom Dashboards Menu has to provide the link directly connected to the specific analyzed page" for monitoring in detail. The reason is that he wants to see the ...
about 1 month ago in Instana / MQ 0 Under review

Customize generated webhooks prefix: name and size

Our French bank client uses a specific naming convention for openshift projects: <business-project>-<product>-<env>. While deploying an ICE pilot in their lab environment, a project name is 22 characters long. Prefixed with the 4...
about 2 months ago in AIOps Integrations 0 Under review

Add support for displaying Fiscal Years as per UK accounting convention

Cloud Financial Planning currently doesn't support the conventional way of displaying a UK Fiscal Year that spans 2 calendar year. For example, a Fiscal Year that runs for 12 months from April (Yr1) to March (Yr2) can only be displayed as either F...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Planning 0 Under review

Visual encoding for hierarchy in the list view

Add a possibility to apply a visual encoding rules also to 1st and 2nd hierarchy levek in list view, not only main cards
about 2 months ago in Targetprocess / Views (Lists, Boards, Roadmaps, Dashboards) 2 Planned for future release

Actions for Cloud SQL on GCP

Hello friends. A client migrated part of their applications from Azure to GCP. After migration, the client applied a series of cost-saving actions, but they missed actions for PaaS databases on GCP, actions that they had on Azure. My suggestion/re...
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 0 Future consideration

Cloudability View Definition improvement

As a Cloudability Admin I would like to be able to define Views based on the Payer Account Id, and other core fields so that I can define the views that my users need. My organisation has multiple Payer Account Ids, and I do need to use that field...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization / Reports, Dashboards / Views 0 Submitted

Kafka Sensor: Support Kafka Kraft Deployments

In Kafka Zookeeper deployments are deprecated since Confluent kafka 7.5 https://docs.confluent.io/platform/current/kafka-metadata/zk-production.html Even though IBM Instana Kafka Agent supports Confluent Kafka 7.7.1 according to Support Sheet http...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Planned for future release

Instana Smart Alerts Time Thresholds

Current Smart Alert Evaluation granularity scale is between 1 - 30 minutes.We would need alerts much sooner, 10 seconds would be ideal. Can this scale minimum be changed to less than 1 minute?
about 2 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Submitted

Price Currency Globaly

Nowadays it is only possible to change the price currency in a user context. The problem with this is that some people only have ready only acess and cant change the currency settings on their own (no settings cause read only) that means all peopl...
2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 1 Under review

Add Additional Rightsizing ROI Metrics to ApptioBI Metrics

Our end users would like their potential rightsizing savings and realized savings metrics added to their base ApptioBI reports. Since Cloudability has the Rightsizing ROI report trackingr realized savings, why can't the realized savings metric als...
2 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 1 Future consideration